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Saving Private Ryan [VHS] $0.81 When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic–and maybe the best–war film ever. With 1998 productio…

GIANT Wall Sticker of: Panoramic map of historic Auburn, Cal. / C.P. Cook., del. ; presented with the compliments of W.B. Lardner, real estate agent, att’y-at-law & notary public. GIANT Wall Sticker of an historic map from the Panoramic Maps Collection of the Library of Congress. Emerald Honeybee offers only the BEST in quality. Our Wall Stickers are printed by a Professional Graphics Company using a MIMAKI Eco-Solvent Printer and archival inks. (Which means your poster is UV protected and will not fade over time). Shipped rolled in a tube. Description of this Poster is as …

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle $8.94 Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes’s Emmy Award-winning PBS show, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on a rich store of materials from the archives of Highclere Castle, including diaries, letters, and photographs, the curr…

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All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis $9.39 The New York Times bestseller hailed as “the best business book of 2010″ (Huffington Post). As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of …

A Collection of Important English Statutes; Showing the Principal Changes in the Law of Property: Together with Some Other Enactments of $16.89 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Showing the Principal Changes in the Law of Property: Together With Some Other Enactments of Common Reference; Original Published by: Waterman and Amee in 1888 in 200 pages; Subjects: Property; Law; Real property; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / General; Law / General; Law / Property; Law / Real Estate;

A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican Law $66.36 Subtitle: In Relation to Mines, and Titles to Real Estate, in Force in California, Texas and New Mexico; and in the Territories Acquired Under the Louisiana and Florida Treaties, When Annexed to the United States. Volume I. Containing a Translation of the Mining Ordinances of New Spain–Gamboas? Mining Ordinances–The Laws in Relation to Mines of Gold, Silver and Quicksilver, Contained in the novisima Recopilacion, and the recopilacion De Las Indias, and in the Decrees of the Cortes of Spain and of Fer General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Original Publisher: J. S. Voorhies Subjects: Mining law Land titles Law Spain History / Europe / General History / Europe / Spain

A Concise Treatise on the Law and Practice of Conveyancing $63.19 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Together With the Solicitors” Remuneration Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. C. 44) and the Orders on Conveyancing Fees and Charges; Original Published by: H. Cox in 1883 in 265 pages; Subjects: Conveyancing; Costs (Law); Lawyers; Biography & Autobiography / Lawyers & Judges; History / General; Law / General; Law / Civil Procedure; Law / Land Use; Law / Legal Profession; Law / Real Estate;

A House in Istria $14.95 A wild and quixotic novel about real estate, marriage, and obsession. A House in Istria is a crazily comic novel about a man, his long-suffering wife, and his fixation with buying the abandoned house next door. But, in this Croatian region of Istria, the neighbors frown upon the husband as a Westerner who knows nothing about Balkan history or the area’s deep blood feuds. Forget that house, they tell him: It’s not for sale.

A Land Remembered $14.95 In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own. Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife. A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society’s Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback.

A Land Remembered $19.95 In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own. Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife. A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society’s Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback.

A Meaningful Life $14.95 L.J. Davis’’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make it big as a writer. Instead he finds a job as a technical editor, at which he toils away while passion leaks out of his marriage to a nice Jewish girl. Then Lowell discovers a beautiful crumbling mansion in a crime-ridden section of Brooklyn, and against all advice, not to mention his wife’’s will, sinks his every penny into buying it. He quits his job, moves in, and spends day and night on demolition and construction. At last he has a mission: he will dig up the lost history of his house; he will restore it to its past grandeur. He will make good on everything that’’s gone wrong with his life, and he will even murder to do it.

A Nation Of Realtors $56.25 A history of the real estate profession that rethinks the impact of gender and class tensions in twentieth-century America.

A Plea for Peasant Proprietors $21.97 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / General; History / Europe / Ireland; Social Science / Sociology / Rural;

A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories $36.67 Marjory Stoneman Douglas became the nation’s best link to a remarkable era in Florida history. The themes of her stories in this new collection resonate with interest for readers today. Whether the subject is hurricanes, cockfighting, real estate deals, struggling immigrants, or corruption in the Everglades, Douglas wrote about it with distinction – and usually first. Originally published in the Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s and 1930s, the golden age of the short story, these nine works have never before been collected or available in one place. Kevin M. McCarthy offers an introduction to each story, explaining its significance, setting, unusual references, place in Douglas’s works, and significance to the history of South Florida.

A Short Epitome of the Principal Statutes Relating to Conveyancing $12.9 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Davis; Publication date: 1881; Subjects: History / General; Law / General; Law / Real Estate;

A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage $39.89 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. Butterworth in 1821 in 731 pages; Subjects: Mortgages; Business & Economics / Real Estate; Law / General; Law / Legal History; Law / Real Estate;

A-Rod $1.01 Through exhaustive reporting and interviews, Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts will explore A-Rod s path to a self-destruction so profound it would rate as one of the most dramatic falls in major league history. Building on her groundbreaking reporting in Sports Illustrated, Selena Roberts delivers the first biography of Alex Rodriguez and explores the full nine innings of his life, not just the one big strike against him–steroids. Roberts chronicles A-Rod as a plunge-in-progress, from his dalliances with strippers to the news that he tested positive for steroids during his 2003 MVP season-a story she broke for Sports Illustrated in February. Roberts goes behind the sensational headlines, probing traumatic events in his childhood to reveal a man torn by his obligation to his family and his insatiable hedonism, while revealing new information about A-Rod s history of steroid use. At 33, Alex Rodriguez is the highest paid player in the history of baseball, a once-in-a-generation talent who is about to break many of the sport s most hallowed batting records-yet he is regarded as a mercenary by most fans. Called A-Fraud by his teammates, A-Rod is cheered when he s on a streak and jeered whenever he slumps. The tabloids can t get enough of his recent off-field misadventures, which include breaking up his 12-year marriage to party with Madonna. Friends worry that A-Rod has bought into a new lifestyle-that all the lies and contradictions in his life are finally catching up to him and contributing to an epic implosion. Through meticulous reporting and hundreds of interviews, Roberts analyzes the elements of A-Rod s freefall, from his strained relationships with teammates to his failure on the field in clutch situations, from his cold business decisions to his steroid use. An extensive look at Rodriguez s shady real estate deals, deviant personal life and disintegration of his family, and including a chapter on A-Rod s arrival for spring trainin

Academic Instincts $12.24 In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between amateurs and professionals , the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between jargon and plain language . Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality.Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today’s teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nation-wide and world-wide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.

Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters $1.99 Surveying the weather and seismic catastrophes in U.S. history–beginning with the 1886 Charleston earthquake–an environmental historian spotlights the defective ways in which real-estate interests, the media, and policy makers have responded to natural disasters and made matters worse. 20 photos.

Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home $5.61 ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY features 12 plans for compact, beautifully-proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. Yet the book offers much more. The richly-illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today’s smaller families, can be as flexible as a set of building blocks. Intriguing drawings demonstrate how readers can expand and adapt the plans to fit their own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites.After a brief look at adobe’s rich history, ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY surveys adobe’s advantages as a building material. Next, readers take an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. Then, the heart of the book illustrates the basic and expanded versions of the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book also explains site requirements, adobe construction, and estimating basics with an adobe house that assembles itself . ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY and its associated construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools not only for those buying, building, or remodeling a house, but also for contractors, drafters, drafting teachers, and real estate professionals.Award-winning author LAURA SANCHEZ previously ran a drafting business that specialized in adobe houses. She called it quits sometime after the 250th set of plans, but maintains an abiding interest in designing the very best, most cost-effective houses possible. ALEX SANCHEZ, who grew up building houses, has taught courses in adobe construction and solar energy. He founded and currently heads the renowned computer-aided drafting program at the University of New Mexico-Valencia Campus. Theauthors’ previous books and CDs concern architectural computer graphics.

An Epitome of English Grammar $17.76 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: LawDeeds; Conveyancing; Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / Contracts; Law / Jurisprudence; Law / Legal History; Law / Real Estate; Reference / Genealogy;

An Epitome of Rules for Interpretation of Deeds for the Use of Students $20 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Sweet and Maxwell in 1901 in 220 pages; Subjects: Deeds; Conveyancing; Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / Contracts; Law / Jurisprudence; Law / Legal History; Law / Real Estate; Reference / Genealogy;

An Image of Death $24.95 Who knew that a career in video documentaries could lead to crime? Such is the fate of Chicago’s Ellie Foreman whose shoots hook her up with misdeeds past and present. Here she is producing a video about foster children that’s being financed by a successful Chicago real estate developer. Her plans get thrown for a loop when a mysterious package appears at her door one winter night. Inside she finds a surveillance video showing the murder of a young woman. Who was this woman and what is her connection to Ellie? The cops shunt her aside, but the urgency she feels to find answers, coupled with her professional knowledge of film, compel her to sleuth despite the difficulties borne from a complex history with her lover, David. A little digging reveals that the murder victim was a courier with a dark history forged in Eastern Europe at the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse. And a little more digging reveals dark happenings here at home, money laundering, and the deadly price of dealing in diamonds…. This dangerous case for Ellie follows 2002’s Anthony-nominated An Eye for Murder and the 2003 Picture of Guilt, all three published in hardcover by Poisoned Pen Press and in paperback by Berkley Prime Crime.

An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property, with Original Authorities $40.89 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Clarendon Press in 1884 in 433 pages; Subjects: Real property; Law; Business & Economics / Real Estate; Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / Legal History; Law / Real Estate;

An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property; With Original Authorities $82.77 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: The Calrendon press in 1892 in 483 pages; Subjects: Real property; Law; Business & Economics / Real Estate; Law / Legal History; Law / Property; Law / Real Estate;

Arizona Dreams $30.9 David Mapstone, history professor turned deputy, is excited when a former student brings him a 40-year-old letter confessing to a murder and even providing directions to the body. But this body isnt 40 years old; it isnt even 40 days old. And now this former student has disappeared. Is the murder just part of some political agenda? Is it connected to the new real estate development, Arizona Dreams? David isnt the only one discovering bodies. His wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone, met a man with an ice-pick in his skull early in her day. And then she sees her half-sister Robin whom she hasnt seen in years. What are these memories shes now battling against? What does Robin want? This is the fourth book in the David Mapstone series.

Arizona Dreams $54.21 When a former student turns up in David Mapstone’s office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts. Just ask David’s wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start of the Willo District home tour is interrupted by murder. A man lies dead with an ice pick in his brain. And Lindsey runs right into her half-sister Robin among the crowd gathering in the historic Phoenix neighborhood, the sister Lindsey hasn’t seen in years. The reunion with Robin rekindles memories about their rough upbringing and the deep rift that they may, or may not, bridge. Why is Robin here now? David has his own problems. There’s a body in the desert, right where the letter said it would be found. But it’s weeks old, not years. And the former student who brought in the letter has disappeared. When David finally locates her, she turns out to be a sham, the wife of a politician with a vendetta against Mapstone’s boss, Sheriff Mike Peralta. But what’s her agenda? And then even fresher bodies turn up, the clues keep pointing back to the same remote piece of desert and a seemingly unconnected real-estate development called Arizona Dreams. But Mapstone knows something sinister is fueling this increasingly dangerous case….

Asheville $21.99 This visual history containing over 200 vintage postcards relives major events in Ashevilles pastfrom the coming of the railroad in 1850 until Americas entry into World War I in 1917. In this time of unprecedented growth, the coming of the railroad made Asheville accessible to those searching for clean air and the beauty and peace of the mountains. Combined with an emphasis on cultural and social life, the areas fresh mountain living proved to be a healer of body, mind, and soul. Soon after the railroad arrived, Asheville became the home of the first world-renowned resort hotel in the South. Within these pages unfolds a little-known anecdote concerning Col. Frank Coxe and the amazing sweep of real estate owned by his ancestors. We learn how such a simple thing as a misplaced reservation became the catalyst for the building of the fabulous Battery Park Hotel. Readers also see the impact of George W. Vanderbilt, E. W. Grove, and other entrepreneurs who lovingly carved their imprint on this city.

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay $9.58 A wildly humorous account of the author’s travels across Paraguay-South America’s darkly fabled, little-known island surrounded by land. Rarely visited by tourists and barely touched by global village sprawl, Paraguay remains a mystery to outsiders. Think of this small nation and your mind is likely to jump to Nazis, dictators, and soccer. Now, John Gimlette’s eye-opening book-equal parts travelogue, history, and unorthodox travel guide-breaches the boundaries of this isolated land, and illuminates a little-understood place and its people. It is a wonderfully animated telling of Paraguay’s story: of cannibals, Jesuits, and sixteenth-century Anabaptists; of Victorian Australian socialists and talented smugglers; of dictators and their mad mistresses; bloody wars and Utopian settlements; and of lives transplanted from Japan, Britain, Poland, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Korea, and the United States. The author travels from the insular cities and towns of the east, along ghostly trails through the countryside, to reach the Gran Chaco of the west: the green hell covering almost two-thirds of the country, where 4 percent of the population coexists-more or very-much-less peacefully-with a vast array of exotic wildlife that includes jaguars, prehistoric lungfish, and their more recently evolved distant cousins, the great fighting river fish. Gimlette visits with Mennonites and the indigenas, arms dealers and real-estate tycoons, shopkeepers, government bureaucrats and, of course, Nazis. Filled with bizarre incident, fascinating anecdote, and richly evocative detail, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig is a brilliant description of a country of eccentricity and contradiction, ofbeguilingly individualistic men and women, and of unexpected and extraordinary beauty. It is a vivid, often riotous, always fascinating, journey.

Bayside $21.99 In 1824, a wealthy shipping merchant by the name of Abraham Bell purchased 245 acres in the area now known as Bayside. He created an upper and lower farm, bisected them with a country lane now called Bell Boulevard, and with this Bayside began to develop. Over the generations, Bayside evolved from its beginnings as a rural farming community to a resort destination with lavish estates that lined the shore of Little Neck Bay. Later the town was transformed again into a commuter suburb touted by real estate developers for its scenic beauty and convenient location. Bayside chronicles the community’’s ever-changing history through this collection of vintage photographs culled from the Bayside Historical Society’’s archives.

Berona’s War $19.95 From the minds of artists/storytellers Jesse Labbe and Anthony Coffey comes this epic tale of two adorable, fur-covered races doomed by their own escalating violence! The Ele-Alta and the Cropones wage war over the island of Berona’’s most desirable piece of real estate: the land called Amity. Cute and cuddly on the outside, but ferocious to the core, these fuzzy fighters will continue their bloodshed no matter the cost! The Berona’’s War: Field Guide provides a great introduction to the world of Berona’’s War, featuring maps, devious strategies, weapons, character and troop descriptions, and the history of wartime events.

Boston’s Changeful Times : Origins of Preservation and Planning in America $242.08 In the mid-nineteenth century, American cities underwent intense physical change at a pace seldom seen before or since. In Boston, reform-minded citizens tallied the costs of unrestrained change and searched for ways to control growth and create a sense of stability in their city. Their preservationist efforts helped to pioneer new approaches to planning and real estate development that eventually spread from Boston and other key cities to the rest of the nation. Boston’s Changeful Times chronicles the relationship between historic preservation, planning, and the desire for permanence in Boston during the years from 1860 to 1930. Michael Holleran concludes that the tools invented for stopping change proved even more powerful for shaping change. New York City drew on Boston’s experience to create the first comprehensive zoning ordinance which, by the end of the 1920s, had fundamentally altered the city-building process. As preservationists, environmentalists, and planners today discover common ground, says Holleran, they are in effect rediscovering the shared origins of their separate movements. This engaging history of preservation, real estate development, city planning, and Boston’s urban development will appeal to readers curious to learn more about how and why America’s cities came to look the way they do.

Brighton $21.99 The town of Brighton was founded by railroad man and real estate developer Daniel F. Carmichael at the junction of the Denver Pacific (now Union Pacific) and Denver and Boulder Valley Railroads. Carmichael determined, There should be a town here that would do credit to the splendid valley. The junction, originally named Hughes after the first president of the Denver Pacific Railroad, had a long history as a crossroads of the West. The town grew into an agricultural center for the Platte River Valley with a thriving sugar beet industry, dairies, and canning factories, but the changing economy would transform Brighton first into a suburban community and now into one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.

Building Suburbia $18 A lively history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live, Building Suburbia chronicles two centuries in the birth and development of America’’s metropolitan regions. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the decisions that have generated America’’s diverse suburbs. Residents have sought home, nature, and community in suburbia. Developers have cherished different dreams, seeking profit from economies of scale and increased suburban densities, while lobbying local and federal government to reduce the risk of real estate speculation. Encompassing environmental controversies as well as the complexities of race, gender, and class, Hayden’’s fascinating account will forever alter how we think about the communities we build and inhabit.

Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England (Volume 20) $25.88 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 20; Original Published by: Harvard University Press in 1914 in 255 pages; Subjects: Land tenure; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Medieval; Law / Land Use;

Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England (Volume 20) $25.88 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 20; Original Published by: Harvard University Press in 1914 in 253 pages; Subjects: Land tenure; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Medieval; Law / Land Use;

California’s Gold Country: Includes Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties $48.2 Derived from David Durham’s definitive gazetteer of California, California s’ Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State, this new popularly priced series is certain to attract the attention of everyone interested in California history, geography, of current events; whether a scholarly researcher, a curious traveler, a backcountry hiker or a casual reader of Californiana.Each book defines the area’s geographical features including topographical features such as ridges, peaks, canyons and valley; water features such as streams, lakes, waterfalls and springs; and cultural features such as cities, towns, crossroads and railroad sidings.Many entries include information about who named the feature, when and why, as well as alternate or obsolete names. All give longitude and latitude of the feature. Great for use with GPS devices!Perfect for park and forestry rangers, natural history buffs, real estate offices and media news desks.

Canadian Income Funds: Your Complete Guide to Income Trusts, Royalty Trusts, and Real Estate Investment Trusts $10.65 Income trusts are popular, but many people stay away because they can t figure out what to buy. This book explains them carefully and sorts through the complexities. Here s the guide you need to find an investment that won t let you down. Ellen Roseman, personal finance columnist, Toronto Star, and author of Money 101 and Money 201 Frustrated with mutual fund and stock market performance? Looking for alternative ways to invest your money? Why have income trusts come out of nowhere, and how do they work anyway? Income trusts are booming. They have been one of the best-performing classes of investments in one of the worst markets in decades. With over 150 trusts currently trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange at a combined value of over $90 billion, this relatively new vehicle, the income fund, is one of the hottest tickets on the Canadian investment landscape today. Income trusts provide Canadians with an alternative to stock investing that offers potentially less risk, higher returns, and regular income. But investing in income trusts can also be fraught with pitfalls, and being stuck with a bad one can do more harm than good. Written by two of the industry s top experts and commentators, this is the first book of its kind: a complete guide to the income trust industry in Canada. Includes complete coverage on: what income funds are and how to use them to your advantage; myths and facts about income funds; different types of income trusts; what to look for in an income trust, and how to assess the risks involved; how income trusts, and the investors in them, are taxed; funds of income funds; and much more. Explainswhat business owners need to know if they are considering converting their businesses into an income trust. Features listings and profiles of over 160 income funds currently available in Canada, including a description of each fund, performance history, and contact information. Designed f

Carolina Chansons $28.71 DuBose Heyward (1885 -1940) was an American author best known for his 1924 novel Porgy. This novel was the basis for the opera Porgy and Bess. Heyward worked in real estate and insurance. When he was financially secure he left business to start a writing career. Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country was first published in 1922. The Low Country was originally settled by Frenchman, Spaniards, and Englishman, each leaving their own legends. Heyward describes this volume as poetry rather than history. Poems include Seance at Sunrise, Silences, Presences, The Pirates, The Sewees of Sewee Bay, La Fayette Lands, Legend of Theodosia Burr, The Priest and the Pirate, Palmetto Town, Carolina Spring Song, The First Submarine, The Last Crew, a collection of Negro poems, Cooper River Legends, and more.

Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question $12.93 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer in 1870 in 143 pages; Subjects: Land tenure; History / Europe / Ireland; Business & Economics / Real Estate; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; History / Europe / Ireland; Law / Land Use;

Charles H. Jones: A Biography $35 His drug store on Broadway and Poplar was between two blocks and two universes away from mainstream Macon. He ran it like a carnival, pushing a juke box on to the sidewalk in order to sell his Valentine Day’s candy. A half century later, Charles Jones is the ringmaster of a corporation that runs hotels and develops real estate throughout Middle Georgia.Charles Jones: A Biography is the poignant story of a country boy who lost his identity and was challenged to build a reputation for his new one. It is also the story of a quiet leader whose community is still enjoying the efforts of his energy and vision.Even with his success, Jones is hardly a household name. He built Macon’s first motel. He brought the Indians home. He soothed race relations. He attracted world class industry to the region. He worked hard to bring his community a medical school and to improve its local college campus. These things he did in an unorthodox style that shoots from the hip and takes few prisoners..More than the story of a single person, this is the contemporary history of a community and a primer for aspiring leaders who want to understand the thinking of a man who values giving and believes money is not as important as the work that earns it.

Chicago’s Little Village $21.99 Little Village has been known by several names over the past 135 years, but its rich culture and history have never been forgotten. Situated on Chicago’’s southwest side, Little Village has gone from real estate promoters Millard and Decker’’s affluent suburb Lawndale to one of the largest Bohemian enclaves in the United States. This vibrant neighborhood is known today as the largest Mexican community in the state of Illinois. Little Village has almost always been a working-class immigrant neighborhood filled with hardworking men and woman who want their piece of the American dream. From residents such as the martyred world’’s fair mayor Anton Cermak to the typical immigrant family next door, these strong-willed people have made their mark on Chicago and the rest of the New World.

Chilly Billy: The Evolution of a Circus Millionaire $17.99 Chilly Billy was the nickname of circus mogul William Washington Cole, the chief rival of P. T. Barnum. Cole was born into a circus family in 1847, and beginning in 1870 and continuing through 1886, developed Cole’’s Colossal Circus into a money-making enterprise. He wisely invested his earnings in real estate, making himself a multimillionaire before finally closing down shop. Another landmark contribution to American circus history, complete with notes, index, bibliography, and contemporaneous illustrations.

City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919 $27.15 In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation’s cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on extensive research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary home owners–African American and white, affluent and working class– City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America’s great urban centers. Garb maps out the rise of urban reform movements that placed new emphasis on household health and family privacy; tracks the expansion of urban real estate developers who marketed ever larger and more expensive homes to affluent buyers; and chronicles the bloody battle over property rights that occurred on Chicago’s South Side. Ultimately, she demonstrates how the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.

City of the Mind $13 Penelope Lively is one of England’s greatest living writers. In City of the Mind, Matthew Halland is an architect intimately involved with the new face of London, while haunted by the destruction and loss in its history. Matthew has a rich and moving relationship with his daughter Jane, and becomes entangled with an array of fascinating characters, from Rutter, a corrupt real estate developer whose Mafia-like ways disgust him, to Sarah, a romantic ray of hope who enters his life. In Lively’s most ambitious novel, she has created a wonderfully rich and audacious confrontation with the mystery of London.

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Frauds, Scams, and Cons $75.37 – The main target for scams are those 50 years of age or older.– This book will expose all the latest scams, frauds, and cons — and can be updated yearly, if necessary, to expose all the latest schemes.Fraud — credit card fraud, telemarketing scares, Internet scares, identity theft and hundreds of other items that are geared to separate you from your money — is a multi-billion dollar business, both in the U.S. and worldwide. From a simple three-card monte game on a street corner to sophisticated banking and Wall Street swindles, cons, frauds and scams are destined to strike one in ten Americans this year. Check kiting, ATM scares, bankruptcy fraud, real estate scams, Nigerian money offers, and even slave reparation scams — there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of ways to get suckered by telemarketers or just plain fast-talking swindlers. Scary stuff, right? This book identifies the myriad of scams, cons, and frauds perpetrated every minute of every day in this country, and gives cutting-edge, up-to-date advice on how you can protect yourself from unscrupulous cons of every conceivable stripe. There will also be an entertaining section on con artists through history, from the infamous grifters of the Great Depression to the masterminds of the recent Enron collapse — perhaps one of the greatest scams in America’s history.

Criminal Prosperity $178 Drug trafficking is the most visible part of the profits of organized crime, which have grown considerably since the end of the cold war. The mirror of history shows us the impact of the drug trade in the colonization of Asia. The post cold war geopolitical context reproduces elements of the past, with new opportunities for drug trafficking in the globalization process, as can be seen in the example of China, and the lasting impunity in terms of money laundering. With the growing role of offshore locations in the global financial system, criminal prosperity has even affected the economic stability of some countries. This book presents a new and heterodox interpretation of the post cold war financial crisis, by focusing on the unexplored dimension of illicit actors.The Mexican crisis of 1994 and its ‘tequila effect’ is analyzed as a model of a ‘cocaine effect’ from the local laundering of profits from the sale of drugs in the US. The Japanese crisis of the 1990s is put in relation to the economic influenceof the Yakuza on the real estate bubble, which had the effect of postponing necessary market adjustments. And the Thai crisis of 1997 is analyzed in the light of massive money laundering of institutional and criminal networks, whose undeclared profits represent about 10% of GDP.These three case studies, which are confirmed in the conclusion by a short analysis of the Russian crisis of 1998, demonstrate how money laundering, with the complicity of some political parties eager to cover their electoral expenses, has distorted local financial intermediation by stimulating real estate and stock market bubbles. This new interpretation will be of interest to anyone concerned withinternational affairs, students of world politics and economics, and specialists on the third world.

Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits $13.95 Mr. Barry is the funniest man in America and we should encourage him. Buy this book. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWhat Pultizer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry did for American history in DAVE BARRY SLEPT HERE and for getting older in DAVE BARRY TURNS FORTY, he does for…everything else in America! The rapacious consumer of overpriced real estate, He Man action figures, and homemade beer sounds off on all the things that make life as we know it both ridiculous and sublime.

Descriptive History and Real Estate Guide to the Town of Winthrop [Mass.] $15.75 This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Domesday Book; A Popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript So Called, with Notices of the Principal Points of General Interest Which It $24.95 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Society for promoting Christian knowledge in 1887 in 344 pages; Subjects: Domesday book; Great Britain; Domesday Book; Business & Economics / Public Finance; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / General; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Military / World War II; History / Medieval; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes;

Domesday Book; A Popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript So Called, with Notices of the Principal Points of General Interest Which It $24.76 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Society for promoting Christian knowledge in 1887 in 347 pages; Subjects: Domesday book; Great Britain; Domesday Book; Business & Economics / Public Finance; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / General; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Military / World War II; History / Medieval; Law / Real Estate;

Domesday Book; A Popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript So Called, with Notices of the Principal Points of General Interest Which It $24.76 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Society for promoting Christian knowledge in 1887 in 352 pages; Subjects: Domesday book; Great Britain; Domesday Book; Business & Economics / Public Finance; Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / General; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Military / World War II; History / Medieval; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes;

Domesday Studies; An Analysis and Digest of the Staffordshire Survey $16.95 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Trubner in 1881 in 182 pages; Subjects: Domesday book; Staffordshire (England); Business & Economics / Real Estate; History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Medieval;

Donald Trump: Master Apprentice $1.33 From the Publisher: On the hugely successful hit reality TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump tells his contenders that location and pricing are supremely significant. But in his own life, there have been other maxims: Do whatever it takes to win. Don’t spare the chutzpah. Always use the superlative. Make everything into an advertisement for yourself. Whatever happens, always claim victory. Following these personal commandments, he has turned bragging, self-inflation, and showing off into competitive advantages that have brought him national and international renown. In Donald Trump: Master Apprentice, best-selling author Gwenda Blair recounts a true-life history with more twists and turns than any television producer could possibly imagine. Towering skyscrapers and glittering casinos, a luxury airline and a football-field-size yacht, steamy affairs and bitter lawsuits, near bankruptcy and stormy feuds — all this and more are part of the life of Trump. An adaptation and update of her definitive biography, The Trumps, this new book provides fresh material on Donald Trump’s brushes with bankruptcy, mammoth construction projects, and ever-expanding place in American life. Drawing on recent interviews with the celebrated real estate magnate, his associates, his rivals, and contestants from his television show, Blair offers new insight into the man who seems to have it all. For the first time, we also get a glimpse of the person who will ultimately decide the fate of the Trump brand: Donald Trump, Jr., the real-life apprentice who hopes to put his own imprint on his father’s empire.

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